Apparently, a sense of humor isn’t on the ticket if you’re a fanatical Muslim. That’s something that an Australian butcher is finding out the hard way after he put a joke about a suicide bomber in his window.

According to Vice, Jeff Rapley owned and operated Rapley’s Midtown Quality Meats in Narooma, New South Wales.

He decided to have a little fun and put a sign in his window to advertise his wares — notably, his bacon.

Needless to say, it didn’t take long before members of the “religion of peace” became decidedly less peaceful.

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“I’m definitely not a racist and didn’t mean for it to cause offense,” the butcher told Narooma News Online.

Even though he took it down because things had “gotten way out of hand,” that wasn’t enough to mollify the angry mob. Narooma is a town of just 2,500 people, yet news of this has gone all around the world.

It’s worth pointing out one thing about this: Rapley’s sign didn’t include references to any religion. And Muslims are far from the only faith to prohibit bacon. Observant Jews and Seventh Day Adventists also don’t eat pork products.

So why, when this sign went up, was everyone so certain that it referred to Muslims? Well, because it’s true. Whenever you hear of a suicide bomber, there are plenty of details you couldn’t guess at. It could be a man or a woman, young or old, in the East or West.